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Pennsylvania
Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Pennsylvania.
840Documented
10In custody
552Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Pennsylvania
Where Pennsylvania’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 260
1700s 79
1910s 76
1920s 73
1960s 69
1800s 61
Recent dashboard entries from Pennsylvania
The newest published events and reporting located in Pennsylvania, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
About 100 protesters rally at Philadelphia City Hall for a data-center moratorium
Arrest
Five protesters arrested for failure to disperse after an attempted flag burning at Philadelphia's July Fourth celebrations
Arrest
Former Pennsylvania state representative Todd Eachus arrested after removal from an Amazon data-center hearing
Prosecution
Former Delco woman tied to the Zizians extremist group charged with her parents' murder
Prosecution
Expelled Pitt student in limbo ahead of Gaza encampment trial
Prosecution
Swarthmore 9 protesters urge Delco DA to drop trespassing case tied to pro-Palestinian encampment
Other
Police tracked anti-data-center speech as extremism
Protest
Southwest Philadelphia residents rally to save 925 affordable-housing units
Documented cases
840 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Ivan Ceh
Released
Ivan Ceh was a miner in Donora, Pennsylvania, arrested during a raid on his home on December 16, 1927, and hel...
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Joe Chandler
Joe Chandler was a speaker for the Metal Workers Industrial League at McKeesport on September 1, 1930. The Dai...
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Richard Chandler
Released
Richard Chandler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
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Pete Chappa
Pete Chappa was a steelworkers’ organizer recently arrested in Monessen for labor activity, according to the D...
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Arthur Chisolm
Released
Arthur Chisolm was an Unemployment Council participant arrested during the police raid on a relief delegation...
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Anthony Cipallit
Anthony Cipallit was one of two young workers detained by Pennsylvania state police in Allentown in connection...
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Robert Clark
Robert Clark is identified in Page 3’s October 9 Philadelphia dispatch, organizer of the North Philadelphia Un...
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Elias Clayton
Released
Elias Clayton was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Richard B. Cley
Released
Richard B. Cley appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
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Shawn Collins
Released
Shawn Collins was arrested in Philadelphia on June 2, 2020, during the citywide curfew that followed the Georg...
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Juan Bautista Colón Rivera
Released
Juan Bautista Colón Rivera was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Lewisburg. Executive Order...
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West Cook
Released
West Cook was a Philadelphia Black Panther Party branch secretary, arrested at gunpoint at about10:30p.m. Sept...
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Richard Cool
Released
Richard Cool appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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Thomas Coombe
Released
Thomas Coombe was an Anglican clergyman and poet, an assistant minister at Christ Church, Philadelphia. Arrest...
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Jennie Cooper
Released
Jennie Cooper was the secretary of the Unemployment Councils in Philadelphia. The Daily Worker of November 8,...
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John Corbly
Released
John Corbly was a reverend and one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania...
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Cowan
Cowan was a Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League leader who led a group of Cleveland veterans.
A Workers Ex-Service...
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John Crawford
Released
John Crawford was the son of Colonel Crawford and one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in w...
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William Crawford
Released
William Crawford was a colonel and one of twenty men arrested during the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylv...
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John Cresswell
Released
John Cresswell was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of the...
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Steve Crevda
Steve Crevda was individually named by National Miners Union secretary-treasurer Pat Toohey in the December 13...
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Anthony Crillo
Anthony Crillo was a miner imprisoned at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania for activity in the 1921 miners' strike. The...
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Isidore Curson
Released
Isidore Curson was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Marmaduke Curtis
Released
Marmaduke Curtis was among the western Pennsylvania men taken into federal custody during the suppression of t...
Institutions in Pennsylvania
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Pennsylvania that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort MifflinPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
48 cases
Allegheny County WorkhouseBlawnox, Pennsylvania
34 cases
Walnut Street JailPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
20 cases
Philadelphia GaolPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
18 cases
United States Penitentiary, LewisburgLewisburg, Pennsylvania
14 cases
Butler County PrisonButler, Pennsylvania
11 cases
FCI AllenwoodWhite Deer, Pennsylvania
10 cases
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas / SCI Pennsylvania state prisonsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
9 cases